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Reanimation

Reanimation History Ventilation:In the 19th century, less effective measures for indirect ventilation through chest compressions such as Sylvester's arm movements were used, some of which were still taught until the 1970s (Ziegenfuß 2007).The Austrian physician Peter Safar, together with D G Gree...

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